The Runaway Soul (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Aaron Roy Weintraub
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Autobiographical fiction
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Gay men, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Sex or sexuality, Murder or homicide, Incest, Death or dying, Adoption or adopted children
- Locales: New York, NY, Cambridge, MA, Illinois
With the publication of The Runaway Soul, Brodkey published a book that many of his followers had been awaiting for thirty years. Weighing in at 835 pages, it was suggested that this book was the great “runaway novel.” Most critics agreed that it made prodigious use of language and of grammatical structuring, which some of them referred to as “architecture.” On the other hand, many critics considered the book flabby and contended that to make its greatest impact, it should have been much shorter. Certainly it would have benefited from a more drastic revision even than...
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